I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.